On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:56, Antony Stone wrote:
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 2:14 am, ollie lho wrote:
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote:
Hi.
I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L).
Is is essential to use the framebuffer device for video output under LinuxBios, or can I boot it into a 'standard VGA' mode ?
I tried changing HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1 to =0 and also removing it entirely from my config file, but I just got no video output at all - the serial port told me everything else was starting up okay though.
Do you want VGA frame buffer or not ?? If you want framebuffer for SiS 630, you have to enable SiSFB Lite in the SiS LinuxBIOS patch.
Yes, I can do that, and the framebuffer works fine.
What I'm asking is whether I can boot LinuxBios *without* using the framebuffer device, and still get a display ? ie what you'd normally get on a 'standard' (non-LinuxBios) Linux machine if you didn't select framebuffer output.
No. You have to use framebuffer. LinuxBIOS does not init VGA.
Ollie